Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

from the progressing-conservative-liberal-values-in-a-republican-democratic-republic dept

It's been a while since this last happened, but we've got a great comment topping the charts on both the funny and insightful side this week. When the feds claimed that information such as who the US is at war with is classified, Josh in CharlotteNC provided something quite rare: a fresh and original Orwell joke:

It didn't stop the Boston Bomber. It didn't stop the Ft Hood bombing. It didn't even stop the Washington shooter.
we shut down a city for Gods' sake and that wasn't what got the Tsarnaev. As soon as the police stopped their search a private citizen found the guy an hour later!

So now, our president, who supports these programs, wants to tell me that they needed these programs? NEEDED?!

No, you need a swift kick in the ass for lying to the American people. You need a better strategy than taking away the freedoms of the Constitution and only giving it to your financial backers. You need to learn from history and quit repeating it. You need to fire the people that have you wrapped around your finger as a public figure while you support their policies (looking at YOU Keith Alexander!). Finally, you need to grow a pair and face the music that the American public DOES. NOT. LIKE. BEING. SPIED. ON. BY. OUR. GOVERNMENT.

We did not sign up for constant surveillance. It didn't work for the past decade. You used drone strikes in our name and we're unhappy with that. You abused a war on an idea that was unpatriotic and created massive deaths in multiple countries. You cared more about your backers than the American people which you gave the worst debt to. You continued the Bush doctrine which essentially continued the problems that we've had since Reagan.

It's time to END IT! The internet is our global democracy, not the plaything of politicians that don't understand it. The government was created of, by, and for the people. Your surveillance is wrong, unconstitutional, and undemocratic. It cuts against political and patriotic lines and does nothing to help anything beyond the state to lose legitimacy. That is not the American way. It's the way of tyrants and dictatorship.

Don't sweat the labels. "Liberal" and "conservative" are code words, nothing more. To people who call themselves "conservatives", anybody they disagree with is a "liberal". To people who call themselves "liberals", anybody they disagree with is a "conservative".

(I've always thought "progressive" made a more sensible counterpoint for "conservative" if you want to talk about social-political ideologies, but of course in Canada we meddled with both words by having the "Progressive Conservative Party" for sixty years...)

I am very careful to take every dollar I save from pirating movies, music, and television shows and stuff it into my mattress. This ensures that this money will never again see the light of day and is a 100% economic loss.

In addition, this has saved me from having to purchase a new mattress, so I took THAT money and stuffed it into my mattress as well. However, since my mattress is now as hard as a rock, I would not call this a ripple-effect so much as an anti-ripple effect.

'We just have to elect a Constitutional lawyer with a platform that includes protection for whistleblowers!'

i have to admit, i didn't see the comment when it was put out. glad you repeated it. sure made me laugh too!

the really sad thing is, as true as this comment is, it will be totally dismissed, totally ignored, not just by Obama, but by all his family too! it makes me wonder what has to be done to make someone forget what he has become and go back to the person he at least was supposed to be originally?

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The spam filter wasn't working well earlier and some comments that were definitely spam (make money by visiting website, blah, blah) were getting through on this article and another. Both of those spam posts mentioned "Juliana" and that is what the commenter you're replying to was referring to. The spam posts are gone and now it looks like the comment is out of context when earlier it most certainly wasn't.

As soon as the police stopped their search a private citizen found the guy an hour later!

So now, our president, who supports these programs, wants to tell me that they needed these programs? NEEDED?!

Clearly, what is most needed is the cooperation and participation of the American people. And judging by the rest of this rant (which I and a growing number of people I know totally agree with) their current behavior is NOT the way to get it.

So if the government steals information from me, that is rape. If I give it to them, that is sex. So, the difference between rape and sex is salesmanship.

SOLUTION:
If the NSA would send me a nice bouquet of roses and get me a little drunk over dinner, I'll let them listen to my phone calls and read my email and then fuck me over for the rest of my life upon demand.

The NSA needs to learn some dating etiquette but it is unfortunately run by nerds that have never been laid.